People and places at the ragged edge: Place-based policy for reducing rural poverty

Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 111-131

  Weber, Bruce A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781936331338     Document Type: Chapter

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